Film Director

Akira Kurosawa

Japanese film director and screenwriter

1910 - 1998

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His biography is available in 150 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 143 in 2024). Akira Kurosawa is the 4th most popular film director (up from 8th in 2024), the 7th most popular biography from Japan (down from 6th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Film Director.

Akira Kurosawa is most famous for his samurai films.

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#7 / 6,943

Akira Kurosawa ranks #7 among 6,943 people in Pantheon born in Japan, inside the top 1% of that group.

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Akira Kurosawa's biography appears in 150 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 99% of all Film Directors.

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Among Film Directors

Among film directors, Akira Kurosawa ranks 4 out of 2,296. Before him are Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Hayao Miyazaki. After him are David Lynch, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, and D. W. Griffith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Akira Kurosawa ranks 2. Before him is Mother Teresa. After him are Giuseppe Meazza, Jacques Cousteau, Ingrid of Sweden, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Robert K. Merton, Archer Martin, Lee Byung-chul, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Gloria Stuart. Among people deceased in 1998, Akira Kurosawa ranks 2. Before him is Pol Pot. After him are Frank Sinatra, Halldór Laxness, Alan Hodgkin, Jean Marais, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Vasily Arkhipov, Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Vladimir Prelog, and Carlos Castaneda.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Akira Kurosawa ranks 7 out of 6,943. Before him are Hirohito (1901), Matsuo Bashō (1644), Hokusai (1760), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Akihito (1933), and Oda Nobunaga (1534). After him are Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542), Emperor Meiji (1852), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), and Haruki Murakami (1949).

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Among Film Directors In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Akira Kurosawa ranks 2. Before him is Hayao Miyazaki (1941). After him are Isao Takahata (1935), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Shohei Imamura (1926), Mamoru Oshii (1951), and Hideaki Anno (1960).

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